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Sacred music concert
"REMEMBERING THE DEPARTED..."
Participating:
Vaidas Vyšniauskas (Kristian Benedikt, tenor)
Povilas Jaraminas (pianist)
Vaidas Vyšniauskas (Kristian Benedikt) is a dramatic tenor. He studied singing with the legendary Virgilijus Noreikas and the famous Italian tenor Gianfranco Cecchele. In 2010, he became the winner of the LRT project "Golden Voice". He became famous on the international stage as one of the most famous interpreters of the role of Othello (G. Verdi). He has performed this complex role more than 120 times: at the Mexico City Theater "Opera de Bellas Artes", Verona's "Teatro Filarmonico", the Vienna State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the St. Petersburg Maria Theater, the Luciano Pavarotti Theater in Modena, Piacenza, Cagliari, Palermo, Yekaterinburg, Santiago, Graz, Basel, the Stockholm Royal Opera, the Latvian Riga Opera Festival and the Pacific Opera Victoria Theater, the Montreal Opera, the Savonlinna Opera Festival and elsewhere. In 2018, The soloist made his debut at the New York Metropolitan Opera in the role of Samson (Samson and Delilah). Among the tenor's most notable roles in his repertoire are Don José (Carmen), Cavaradossi (Tosca), Samson (Samson and Delilah), Calaf (Turandot), Pinkerton (Madame Butterfly), Canio (Pagliacci), as well as such roles as Eleazar (The Jewess), Manric (Il Trovatore), Dick Johnson (The Maid of the West), Edgard (Lucia di Lammermoor), and the main roles in the operas André Chenier, Hernani, Rienzi, Lohengrin, and Hoffmann in The Tales of Hoffmann.
Povilas Jaraminas is a pianist, concertmaster, one of the first jazz promoters in Lithuania and a participant in the first jazz festival (Elektrėnai, 1968). In 1967 he graduated from the MK Čiurlionis School of Arts, in 1972 from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (piano class of Prof. O. Šteinbergaitė). The pianist has performed with famous vocalists Gehams Grigorianus, Irena Milkevičiūtė, Giedre Kaukaitė, Montvydas Prudkauskas, Vaidas Vyšniauskas, Vytautas Juozapaitis, Gintaras Skeryts, etc., and has performed in Europe, the USA, and Canada. From 1980 to 2018 he was Virgilijus Noreika's concertmaster. From 1985 to 2017 he combined his concert activities with the work of a concertmaster at the National MK Čiurlionis School of Arts, and since 1974 he has been working as a concertmaster at the Vilnius Choral Singing School "Liepaitės". Awarded the Medal of the Order of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas.
